Secunia Security Advisory - Max Vozeler has reported a vulnerability in rssh, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
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TITLE:
rssh "chroot" Directory Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA18224
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/18224/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Privilege escalation
WHERE:
Local system
SOFTWARE:
rssh 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/3604/
DESCRIPTION:
Max Vozeler has reported a vulnerability in rssh, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to a design error that allows
malicious users to use the affected application with arbitrary chroot
directories.
The vulnerability is related to #1 in:
SA18223
Successful exploitation requires that "rssh_chroot_helper" is
installed setuid root.
The vulnerability has been reported in version 2.0.0 through 2.2.3.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.3.0.
http://www.pizzashack.org/rssh/downloads.shtml
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Max Vozeler
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.pizzashack.org/rssh/security.shtml
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA18223:
http://secunia.com/advisories/18223/
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